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America Needs Service Workers — And They Need Health Care
Our country is founded on a myth that anyone can succeed so long as they work hard. That's the story of Alexander Hamilton that has swept Broadway: how a "bastard orphan" can become "a hero and a scholar." According to the lyrics he did it by working harder, being...
No Wonder Trump’s Approval Rating Is Plummeting
Apparently President Trump wonders why he's getting the lowest job-approval ratings from the public in modern presidential history. Maybe he should actually look at the policies he's pushing. For example, the GOP's draconian health care scheme is so ugly that only 17...
Repeal and Destroy
In OtherWords: June 21, 2017
This week in OtherWords, we take a closer look at foreign policy. Olivia Alperstein observes that the president seems almost over-eager to pick fights with allies and other countries, like Iran, that the U.S. has forged hard-won diplomatic agreements. But he seems to...
Companies Can Either Make Things or Make CEOs Rich
Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric since 2001, is retiring. The 61-year-old will be making a well-compensated exit. Fortune magazine estimates that Immelt will walk off with nearly $211 million, on top of his regular annual pay. Immelt’s annual pay hasn’t been...
The Tax Plan Moms Need
During his speech announcing that the U.S. is ditching the Paris climate accords, President Trump took a strange detour to declare "our tax bill is moving along in Congress, and I believe it's doing very well. I think a lot of people will be very pleasantly...
Our President’s Word Wars
These days I find myself thinking often about a cartoon by the late Theodore Geissel. In it, a woman with a sweater that reads "America First" reads aloud from a storybook to two children: "And the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones," she relays....
Trump on Cuba: If Obama Did It, It’s Bad
There's a lot to say about Trump reversing some of the Obama administration's policies on Cuba. The White House recently announced it was banning individual travel to the island and further restricting what business Americans can do there. Yes, there's a lot to say,...
Another Troop Surge in America’s Longest War
President Trump might have dodged military service in his youth, but he certainly is militaristic — he's bellicose, likes to issue commands, and is constantly firing off militant tweets at anyone he perceives to be an enemy (which seems to include everyone who dares...
Tongue Tied
